Nancy Pelosi

Muslims calling for peace in Gaza have been answered with rampant Islamophobia

By Wa'el Alzayat — February 19, 2024
(RNS) — The repercussions go far beyond the current conflict overseas.

Yes, Biden and Trump are old. Jewish teaching says that can be a good thing.

By Avi Shafran — January 29, 2024
(RNS) — Look what happened when Judean King Rehoboam shunned the advice of the court elders.

Pelosi on cleric who barred her from Communion: ‘That’s his problem, not mine’

By Jack Jenkins — March 23, 2023
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘We’ve had very, very negative anti-LGBTQ stuff coming from our archbishop,’ former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said of San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.

The ‘double effects’ of men behaving badly

By Phyllis Zagano — March 13, 2023
(RNS) — How some bishops and lay groups have become the de facto Catholic morality police.

In new footage, Pelosi seen praying with colleagues shortly before insurrection

By Jack Jenkins — October 14, 2022
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Before rioters stormed the Capitol, Pelosi is seen praying for the country and for Republicans to 'have their own epiphany.'

Pope Francis addresses abortion, mass shootings and resignation rumors

By Claire Giangravé — July 12, 2022
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a new wide-ranging interview, Pope Francis said it never occurred to him to resign so far but laid out his vision for a possible retirement.

The particularly Pentecostal flavor of Mayra Flores’ Christian nationalism

By Erica Ramirez — July 11, 2022
(RNS) — She flipped her Texas district red, and her win sends alarming signals about how risky it is to assume Latinx voters will support a Democratic ticket in 2024.

In defiance of US bishops, Nancy Pelosi receives Communion at the Vatican

By Claire Giangravé — June 29, 2022
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the Vatican on Wednesday and received a blessing by Pope Francis.

The abortion question may be decided politically. The real test is a moral one.

By Phyllis Zagano — June 25, 2022
(RNS) — Politics is not the point. The point is to make abortion unnecessary.

Why Cordileone’s Communion ban on Pelosi looks more political than pastoral

By Nava Grant — June 1, 2022
(RNS) — Nothing in the canon law the San Francisco archbishop cited demands a ban on Communion.

Pelosi now barred from Communion in at least four dioceses

By Jack Jenkins — May 26, 2022
(RNS) — Some of the bishops, all belonging to a small but vocal group of conservatives, seemed to point to an article of church law that they said compelled them to follow each other’s lead.

Pelosi vs. Cordileone isn’t only about abortion. It’s about women and bishops.

By Phyllis Zagano — May 26, 2022
(RNS) — The list of reasons Catholic women stopped listening to bishops is a long one.

If Nancy Pelosi is denied Communion, why not William Barr?

By John Gehring — May 24, 2022
(RNS) — Punishing one and celebrating the other, some Catholic leaders act like mere partisans. 

Banned from Communion in San Francisco, Pelosi receives Eucharist in Washington

By Jack Jenkins — May 23, 2022
WASHINGTON (RNS) — During a homily before Communion, the priest at the church railed against 'election deniers and Vatican II deniers.'

Citing abortion rights, San Francisco Archbishop bars Pelosi from Communion

By Jack Jenkins — May 20, 2022
(RNS) — 'She is not to be admitted to Holy Communion unless and until she publicly repudiate her support for abortion ‘rights’ and confess and receive absolution for her cooperation in this evil in the sacrament of Penance,' Cordileone wrote.
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